Author: Jennifer Lynn KrstolicPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water quality
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Water-quality Synoptic Sampling, July 1999
Author: Jennifer Lynn KrstolicPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water quality
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Water-Quality Synoptic Sampling, July 1999: North Fork Shenandoah River, Virginia, U.S. Geological Survey, Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5153, 2004
Author: Water-quality Synoptic Sampling, July 1999
Author: Jennifer Lynn KrstolicPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water quality
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Residence Times and Nitrate Transport in Ground Water Discharging to Streams in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Author: National Water Summary
Author: Technical Guidance Manual for Developing Total Maximum Daily Loads
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428906096
Category : Biochemical oxygen demand
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Environmental Accounting
Author: Howard T. OdumPublisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
In this important new work, Howard T. Odum, widely acknowledged as the father of systems ecology, lucidly explains his concept of emergy, a measure of real wealth that provides a rational, science-based method of evaluating commodities, services, and environmental goods. Using specific real-world examples, Dr. Odum clearly demonstrates the revolutionary role of emergy in environmental management and policy making. Environmental Accounting: Emergy and Environmental Decision Making offers environmental professionals—policymakers, managers, ecologists, planners, developers, and activists—a systematic approach to environmental and economic valuation that will eliminate much of the rancor and adversarial decision making that often plagues environmental issues. Specifically, this book: Describes the theoretical basis, calculation procedures, and applications of emergy Introduces the concept of "transformity," the ratio of emergy (work put into a product) and energy (value received from the product) Provides formulas for emergy calculations, procedures for making an emergy evaluation table, and parameters for updating evaluations Demonstrates the use of emergy to evaluate environments, minerals, waters, primary energy sources, economic developments, and international trade Compares the emergy approach to environmental evaluation with others Environmental Accounting: Emergy and Environmental Decision Making will help environmental decision makers and the society they serve maximize economic vitality with less trial and error, innovate with fewer failures, and adapt to change more rapidly. It provides the tools they need to arrive at the best policies in resource management, economics, and the environment. Balancing the economy and the environment— from the father of systems ecology Increasing economic dependence on diminishing natural resources has sparked a highly charged debate over the use and fate of the world environment. Environmental Accounting: Emergy and Environmental Decision Making presents a unique method of environmental management based on maximizing real wealth, the whole economy, and the public benefit. Renowned ecologist Howard T. Odum introduces the concept of emergy to provide a rational alternative to the tug-of-war over the world's most vital assets. Emergy measures the energy put into making a product and is the cornerstone of Odum's revolutionary text. This timely and important book offers key insights into: Determining the real value of a product or service Transformity, or the relationship between emergy (input) and energy (output) Stored wealth, available energy, and the final product Balancing economic and environmental needs Environmental Accounting: Emergy and Environmental Decision Making will help economists, ecologists, policymakers, and planners make more responsible, informed decisions to sustain economic and environmental development.
Isotopes in the Water Cycle
Author: Pradeep K. AggarwalPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402030231
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Environmental isotope and nuclear techniques provide unmatched insights into the processes governing the water cycle and its variability. This monograph presents state of the art applications and new developments of isotopes in hydrology, environmental disciplines and climate change studies. Coverage ranges from the assessment of groundwater resources in terms of recharge and flow regime to studies of the past and present global environmental and climate changes.
Ground-water Discharge and Base-flow Nitrate Loads of Nontidal Streams, and Their Relation to a Hydrogeomorphic Classification of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Middle Atlantic Coast
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Base flow (Hydrology)
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Water-Quality Hydrology
Author: V.P. SinghPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401103933
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Water is vital to life, maintenance of ecological balance, economic development, and sustenance of civilization. Planning and management of water resources and its optimal use are a matter of urgency for most countries of the world, and even more so for India with a huge population. Growing population and expanding economic activities exert increasing demands on water for varied needs--domestic, industrial, agricultural, power generation, navigation, recreation, etc. In India, agriculture is the highest user of water. The past three decades have witnessed numerous advances as well as have presented intriguing challenges and exciting opportunities in hydrology and water resources. Compounding them has been the growing environmental consciousness. Nowhere are these challenges more apparent than in India. As we approach the twenty first century, it is entirely fitting to take stock of what has been accomplished and what remains to be accomplished, and what accomplishments are relevant, with particular reference to Indian conditions.